Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Watergate, hell," his neighbor said. "We're cheering because she broke the pressmen's union...
...union-busting is needed to reach this goal, then so be it. But reporters are easier game then pressmen. All a publisher has to do is encourage in the poor saps the belief that they are working for something far more precious than money: The Truth...
...numerous encomiums from rivals, the paper played host for four hours to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Dressed in a plaid suit and mauve hat, Her Majesty visited the freshly painted newsroom, known as "the pit," and chatted with dozens of employees, from reporters in white shirts to pressmen in working clothes. The paper's labor editor caused a brief commotion when he told BBC radio listeners that the Queen had commented on the cause of a protracted miners' strike; the royal family is expected not to discuss politics, and the paper quickly retracted the remarks. The Queen Mother...
...operating indefinitely, but with a daunting proviso: the city's traditionally intransigent news paper unions, which had watched six papers die since 1950, would have to endorse a prompt elimination of about 1,300 of the paper's 5,000 jobs. Warned William Kennedy, president of the pressmen's union: "It may not be worth...
...massacre and provide for their audience an affected display of reverence, a purified measure of the poison he delivered. Differences in interpretation are not a matter of nuance, unless differing over a factor of a million is quibbling. That the planners for Suslov's funeral, a host of apparatchnik pressmen, and perhaps an entire popuation, could stifle the outreach of history with such an air of unconcern says something about human nature, and our ability to adapt to the needs of whatever sort of politics happen to entrap...